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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
. Stowe never undertook another reading tour, nor, after this one, did she ever read again for money, though she frequently contributed her talent in this direction to the cause of charity. The most noteworthy event of her later years was the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of her birthday. That it might be fittingly observed, her publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston, arranged a reception for her in form of a garden party, to which they invited the literati of America. It was held on June 14, 1882, at The old elms, the home of Ex-Governor Claflin of Massachusetts, in Newtonville, one of Boston's most beautiful suburbs. Here the assembly gathered to do honor to Mrs. Stowe, that lovely June afternoon, comprised two hundred of the most distinguished and best known among the literary men and women of the day. From three until five o'clock was spent socially. As the guests arrived they were presented to Mrs. Stowe by Mr. H. 0. Houghton, and then they g
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
llitude in Middlemarch, 471; invited to visit America, 471; sympathy with H. B. S. in Beecher trial Doctor, the preaching of, 25. England and America compared, 177. England, attitude of, in civil war, grief at, 369; help of to America on slave question, 166, 174. English women's address H. B. S. on, from English attitude towards America, 394. Health, care of, 115. Heaven, belThe minister's Wooing, 336; on his dislike of America, but love for American friends, 354. Ruskilwald to Meyringen, 245; London, en route for America, 247; work for slaves in America, 250; corresAmerica, 250; correspondence with Garrison, 261, et. seq.; Dred, 266; second visit to Europe, 268; meeting with Queen lorence, 349; Italian journey, 352; return to America, 353; letters from Ruskin, Mrs. Browning, Hollemarch, 471; invites George Eliot to come to America, 472; words of sympathy on Beecher trial from Sutherland, Duchess of, 188, 218; friend to America, 228; at Stafford House presents gold bracele[1 more...]